Wednesday, September 19, 2007

To Infinity and Beyond by Eli Maor

As it says, a cultural history of the infinite. The usual stuff about Cantor fairly well explained. Quite a good non-euclidean part. Infinite tilings and symmetries was good and the section on Escher was very good. The section on kabbalism and cosmology interested me less. The appendix on group theory was quite good and concise.

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